Poetry as Socio-proctology

W.D. Hamilton thought humanity was roughly divided into people concerned with other people- the florid psychotic representing one extreme- a...

Temple Grandin suffers from autism. Unable to have close emotional ties with other people, she uses her great intellectual gifts to re-desi...

What is the origin of the expression- 'Think small, bugger De Gaulle"? I am editing a book about Soho street-...

Conisder Ghalib's ghazal 28.  qat̤rah-e mai baskih ḥairat se nafas-parvar huʾā   ḳhat̤t̤-e jām-e mai sarāsar rishtah-e gauhar huʾā   ...

I never understood my Mum's fascination with the actor John Inman, in 'Are you being served'- a British sit-com of the late 70...

Jan Myrdal is the son of Gunnar and Ava Myrdal both of whom won Nobel Prizes (Gunnar for Econ, Ava for Peace). Jan reckons they were crappy ...

(This is extracted from my novel 'Samlee's daughter' ) Once upon a time, there was a great Mujtahid ul Asar [1] in the City of ...